dong dong dong QIANG

I'm not particularly excited about CNY this year maybe because I'm not particularly looking forward to see and greet a houseful of relatives that I don't really know- many of which don't remember who I am, what's my name, whose daughter I am. But to them, I'm probably someone that would appear in their houses once a year to get my ang baos.
But some part of me still loves chinese new year. For one, I finally get a break from school, get a chance to buy new clothes that cost a weeny bit more, new shoes and get together with my cousins for a day out..

So let's begin with the reunion dinner at grandpa's house. I love that house because grandma, like me, adorns her house with bright coloured things and photographs- photographs at document our growth, our parent's childhood, their graduation photos, travel photos and many many ancient memories.

Here's a proud me with my creation before it gets eaten. Ours has an extra packet of crispy biscuits for the kids to enjoy =DAnd here's the grandparents! lovely people. I kinda feel that age's catching up on them bit by bit. more white hairs, they walk more slowly now, they feel tired easily. Its kinda sad really, that its already a fact that they'll be leaving me one day.
Here's the spread! Its a lot more food than those on the table. But the table has no more space for the plates. We normally have enough for lunch and dinner the next day, but they're really great cooks.

Bright and early the next morning , i woke up and started to get ready, wear my nice green dress and make my hair. Please say my didi looks great cos i was his fashion consultant! haha =D
And as usual, we made our way to my grandparents house. And again as usual, we began taking a lot of photos using my camera. And soon, as usual, grandma and jon are going to ask me for the photographs (jon in soft copy and grandma in hardcopy). haha :P

Every year, there would be this period of time after we visit this particular relative's house that we cousins would leave for a day out, leaving the adults to gamble away. We always start brainstorming where to go right after new year has ended because there's always no conclusion and no great ideas. This year, the decision was relatively easier because lunch served at that house was all spicy food, hence where would hungry cousins go? To eat of course! so we ended up at Jurong Point's Fish and Co! Jon kindly asked Marco to join us, so we made a gang of 6.

After we were fed, we headed to the arcade where 6 of us played photohunt and bishi bashi. More hands make bishi bashi easier to win! we were all good at different things! and i was very excited because i seldom get to make it through to the last few stages of the whole game!

Marco treated us to ice-cream later, and yea, we had to head off to another relative's house in the evening.

The day ended with blackjack and lots of winnings! =D i got like 10 blackjacks within 2 hours! i'm a happy girl =) HAPPY CNY people!

Updates

K-BOX
I thought I'll finish up this draft while waiting for "Beauty and the Geek" to be aired..
I'm on leave today! that's why I'm so energetic to pen another post and post another load of photos.
My family went to K-box to celebrate Papa's day! They apparently haven't got enough of the previous karaoke session and decided to pay a weeny bit more to go somewhere better, somewhere not so "lao-kok-kok"...
We tried the buffet karoke promotion package at Marina and heh..here we are!!..
WORK
Me and Xuefen decided to make a card and help burn a CD for SF, a lady in the office whom we are supposed to help, cos her wedding's coming up! aw...
That day Marco's dad help pronounce a couple husband and wife in the office.. I got no idea why they decided to solemise in the office but haha..oh well. it was such a blissful event =)

1 YEAR
The end of our one year anniversary marks the one year anniversary of his NS and hence,me, the trying- hard-to-be-a-good-girlfriend took the chance to treat him to Billy Bombers. And haha, yea, the bill was a bomb too, to someone who's trying to desperately save. Argh, i didn't realise how difficult it was to even save like 50 bucks a month.. It REALLY DIDN'T HELP THAT IT WAS THE GREAT SINGAPORE SALE AND EVERYTHING'S SO WORTH IT!!!! i didn't deliberately go on shopping trips but i bought at least 6 tops, 4 necklaces, 3 earrings, 2 pairs of shoes yada yada yada(you get the picture huh..) ..HOW!!!

Really yummy food, but in huge servings. Love the cookies and cream milkshake lovely xuefen recommended! wahhhhhhhhhhh..... billy bombers anyone? Date me out for milkshake!! Oh no.. its 1am and i'm gonna be up by 7 for work... eh oh..

since lala asked me to blog

=) since lala needed some destressing from her exams.. i shall blog!
heh. i'm on this tight schedule of mugging for exams but i'm finding it so hard to concentrate!! and my biological clock is so screwed up i can't sleep at night at all. its weird how when the time comes for you to work hard, you try so hard to, but you also seem more interested in everything else except studying..

My family went to the beach on Good Friday and it was like super crowded.. my attempt to fly a kite failed cos there was no wind..but i must have looked pretty dumb to the people there who saw my desperate attempt to fly the kite..
i was running around...changing directions...running again..but the kite only stayed in the air for like 2 seconds or something.
comeon..someone fly a kite with me after exams k =)

Anyway. my family decided to be romantic and have dinner by the beach, on the 2 picnic mats we brought and it was super dark!!!!!
we couldn't make out the food we bought so everyone had to whip out their handphones and shine here and there...
it was pretty funny cos everyone just moved around and like tried to scrutinise at their plates
so many people ate mouthfuls of chilli lah!!! hahahaha!!!!
i decided to play safe and eat the chicken rice ahead of me and scream " where is the hokkien mee and satay" when i wanna eat them.
But it was fun lah! unique experience nonetheless =)

National Museum

me and marco decided to like go relax someday and we went to the National Museum to like check out the new place!

so cool!!!

i like that place!

we had this "companion" thing. which is like some huge ipod with earphones while touring... then along the floors, there would be numbers... so we just key the numbers on the floor into that "companion" to listen to the guide talk about the historical artefacts.

its a pretty cool idea!

but of course...we took our "companions" off halfway lah.. who wants to listen to boring history.. just look at the pretty exhibits inside lah!

There're alot of cool things inside National Museum =) someone go with me again someday? =)

I'm wondering how to spend my holidays already...they suddenly seem like a long period of time to pass...yet, i can't wait for them to come.

2 more weeks to exams!!!